Inanimate Objects Quotes

• I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

  Mike Mills

  Ideas, Pieces, Intrigued

  "'This film is unmarketable'". Interview with Pascal Wyse, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2005.

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• I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.

  Peter Benchley

  Believe, Blame, Don't Believe

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• The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

  Russell Baker

  Men, Goal, Defeat

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• The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Cat, People

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• Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Attachment, Our Love, Return

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.147

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• Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

  Russell Baker

  Funny, Break Up, Work

  "The Plot Against People". The New York Times, June 18, 1968.

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• The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

  William Dean Howells

  Book, Reading, Mortality

  William Dean Howells, Edwin Harrison Cady (1983). “A Selected Edition of W. D. Howells”

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• Never fight an inanimate object.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Life, Witty

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.189, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Exercise, Matter

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.149, Princeton University Press

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• No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.

  Michael Polanyi

  Law, Determined, Chemistry

  Michael Polanyi (1974). “Scientific thought and social reality: essays”, Intl Universities Pr Inc

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• Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Nature, Stars, Flower

  "A 4th Course of Chicken Soup for the Soul: More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit". Book by Jack Canfield (p. 188), September 1, 2012.

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• Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.

  Michael Behe

  Simple, Simple Life, Materials

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• Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately to defeat him, and the three major classifications are based on the method each object uses to achieve its purpose. As a general rule, any object capable of breaking down at the moment when it is most needed will do so.

  Russell Baker

  Men, Goal, Three

  "The Plot Against People," The New York Times, June 18, 1968.

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• When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.

  Mitt Romney

  Eggs

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• I do have a tendency to invest inanimate objects with human qualities.

  Matthea Harvey

  Quality, Tendencies, Humans

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• there's a natural depravity in inanimate things that's quite shocking, when you think of it.

  Josephine Pinckney

  Thinking, Natural, Depravity

  Josephine Pinckney (1948). “Great Mischief”, New York : Viking Press

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• Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.

  Victor Hugo

  Sight, Personality, Watches

  Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.351

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• As the conceptual, material world increases its hold on us, and inanimate objects become more lifelike, we humans must become more human. Open hearts, kindness and care-these are our most precious gifts.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Buddhist, Kindness, Heart

  Sakyong Mipham (2013). “The Shambhala Principle: Discovering Humanity's Hidden Treasure”, p.41, Harmony

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• I love the life of objects. When the children go to bed, the objects come to life. I like to tell stories about the life of inanimate objects.

  Josef Sudek

  Children, Bed, Stories

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• Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of nature, that you must judge all men as conscientiously as you judge inanimate objects, with the same respect for truth, with the same incorruptible vision, by as pure and as rational a process of identification-that every man must be judged for what he is and treated accordingly.

  John Galt

  Character, Men, Justice

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• There are no inanimate objects.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Objects

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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• Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation sole - a creature of ecclesiastical law - is an acceptable adversary, and large fortunes ride on its cases... So it should be as respects valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland, or even air that feels the destructive pressures of modern technology and modern life.

  William O. Douglas

  Party, Technology, Air

  "Sierra Club v. Morton, 405 U.S. 727". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 19, 1972.

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• I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant, an inanimate object, indeed lost to us until the day, which for some never arrives, when we find that we pass near the tree, or come to possess the object which is their prison. Then they quiver, call us, and as soon as we have recognized them, the spell is broken. Freed by us, they have vanquished death and return to live with us.

  Marcel Proust

  Death, Animal, Broken

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• It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Umbrella, Depravity, Turns

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne of the Island”, p.162, Youcanprint

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• If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.

  John Ralston Saul

  Technology, Class, Giving

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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